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Online payments service PayPal says its suspension of certain transactions in India could last months.

In a post on PayPal’s blog Tuesday, spokesman Anuj Nayar wrote that the company will keep blocking personal payments to and from India as it works out questions that Indian regulators have posed. The payments were initially suspended Jan. 28, after regulators questioned whether PayPal payments should be regulated like wire transfers of cash.

However, local bank withdrawals, which had also been suspended, should be available within a few days, Nayar said.

The size of PayPal’s India business is not publicly disclosed, but it appears to be relatively small.

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PayPal, an eBay company, has suspended personal payments to and from India and transfers to local banks in the country.

Customers can still make commercial payments to India, but merchants cannot withdraw funds in rupees at local Indian banks, it added.

The services have been suspended while the company works with its “business partners and other stakeholders to address questions they have about the service,” according to PayPal’s blog. PayPal did not say what questions have been raised.

PayPal said it is trying to resolve the situation as quickly as possible and that it was sorry for the inconvenience that it may cause its customers in India and around the world. A number of bloggers and Web sites have reported that the company has reversed and returned payments to senders.

PayPal executives in the region were not available for comment on specific reasons why the service was discontinued.

The move by PayPal may be linked to new Indian government rules aimed at preventing money laundering, according to an analyst who spoke on condition of anonymity. Last November, the Indian government introduced rules requiring financial institutions and other intermediaries to verify the identity of clients carrying out international money transfers.

PayPal’s user agreement says it does not guarantee any user’s identity because user verification on the Internet is difficult. PayPal does reserve the right to validate customers’ identities, including asking for documents.

PayPal is used in India by many to receive payment for services such as software development and freelance writing.

Sungale’s Kula TV is powered by a 4.3-inch touch panel display, a pop-up Wi-Fi antenna, and the ability to stream Internet content. The gadget supports for a wide range of audio and video formats and provides a 2GB of internal memory, so you can store your favorite multimedia files on it. The portable Kula TV is scheduled to arrive in early March at an MSRP of $199.99.

The world’s largest array of radio telescopes are joining together for 24 hours in order to observe some quasars.

In the next 24 hours, 35 telescopes on all seven continents will be linked to listen to 243 specific quasars. The point is to establish a baseline for further observations, since the quasars are stationary in the night sky, and provide a good basis for mapping.

The last time this attempted, the total number of 23 telescopes were used. These quasars are also used to set up the GPS system.

Here come some tiny robots that were handmade using recycled and surplus electronic components of your computers, cellphones and other gadgets. Their eyes are made of two LEDs and they carry solar panels that collect sun juice to power them up and provide them with the walking capability at a speed of 1.5 inches per second in bright sunlight.

The tiny robots also work in room light including fluorescent. We’ve got a few interesting ones listed here, such as shown above, one that sings like a bird when it’s been fully juiced up in sunlight.

Buy online, $55, Solar Sound bot.